The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-08-20
Communicated.
JET, KY.
Editor Roundabout:

n SuOIt SdIu, III your loSuC u
August 9th, replying to charge
made by the writer. in your issue
Of July goth, denies emphatically
said charge. l stated then that
the evidence was at hand, anc
could be produced, OF a creditable
character, sustaining the charge,
and which / now offer.
PARIS, KY, Aug. 9th, 1887.
DEAR Sir: Yours Of even date at hand.
will endeavor to give, as near as can, the ex
act language Of the sheriff Of Shelby county
in regard to the payment Of State taxes Sept
ist. 1887, and as related to you by me in
Seelback's Hotel May last.
Twas in Shelbyville a shor: time before
the primary election, OH the day of the
horse sales there. Meeting Winfred Bailey,
the Sheriff, asked him why i. was he was
not for me. as had understood his brother
to say. He answered, saying this in so
many words, " Mr.. Rogers, am sorry 1
can not be for you; but Hewitt was here
the other day, and he has been mighty
clever, and he Promised further indulgence,
and Mr.. Rogers it would be impossible for
me to collect and pay over the taxes, by
September Ist, as the new law requires
without distress to my people or myself"
sud, well. Winfred, you are going to sup
port a man, and for "third term too,
who has law enacted himself and then
offers so assist in staying it in order to pro-
mote his election. Bailey's reply TO this was
"Mr. Rogers. will be for you next time,
but excuse me now. please.
Respectfully yours,
J. JOHNSON ROGERS.
Now having made the charge |
offer this in proof Of said charge,
though not in the exact language
Of Mr.. Rogers, it yet embodics all
the substance of what | desired to
prove in the communication Of
July goth. l leave an impartial
public to now form their own con-
c!usion therefrom | would not
intentionally do. Auditor Hewitt an
but he is servant of the
people, and his official acts and
those looking to that end, are the
property Of the people, and subject
to their approval or severest criti-
cism. The State department, and
the recent Legislatures, are run
the Democratic party into the
ground about as fast as those de-
string its destruction could well
wish, as evidenced by a loss in
four years Of more than one half of
their former majority. The
Courier-Journal Of 10th inst. says
"confound them they can't do it
again. Beware, organ Of the
party, that you are not now whist
ling as you pass through>a grave
yard to keep your courage up.
The shout of Jack Glore of Frank
fort, of John c. Breckenridge fame,
IS now a shout Of the past. 1t
died with him, Hanson and others.
We have now a reading people.
They look to their servants re-
ends, and if smirched by disrep
ltable act. or the party does not
bring forth men worthy of respect,
all the John c. Breckenridge
nurrah's Of the past can never save
There have been rings formed
in politics, as we'll as commercial
circles, and the one now in Frank
fort is said to be the strongest ever
formed in the State. While it has
elected many third termers" it
has seriously weakened the Demo
cratic party. "GeMeral apathy
has taken possession Of many good
men, says the organ of the party. |
Talk about party lines-away with
hem. The General Apathy
Democrats of Kentucky have de-
:ermined no longer to eat crow,
even though it be literally plas-
ered with Democratic sauce.
Democratic conventions have been
10 often cut and dried and con-
rolled by bowling mobs of bum
ners and POLITICAL dead-beats that
ew decent men enter them. 1t is
hus the party is furnishing the
uel to consume its own vitals.
The time for collecting taxes
lnder the new law is most inoppor-
une. Why the change? Let us
urmise. The State Treasury has
'een short offunds for several years.
tate officials, l have been told,